kayj wrote:
> Hi ,
>
>
> Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a vector X that
> looks like this and each row has 3 characters
>
> X
> ASK
> DGH
> ASG
> AUJ
> FRT
>
> I would like to split the vector into 3 vectors that look like this
>
> X1 X2 X3
> A S K
> D G H
> A S G
> A U J
> U R T
>
>
# dummy example data
n = 3
x = replicate(10, paste(sample(letters, n), collapse=""))
y = lapply(1:n, function(i) substr(x, i, i))
# if you need a specific vector
x1 = y[[1]]
# if you really need all three as separate variables
for (i in 1:n)
assign(paste('x', i, sep=""), y[[i]])
vQ
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